12-Letter Words Starting with A

CULTURAL relating to culture

Anticyclone

Of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone.

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DOGMATIC overbearing

ECONOMIC relating to finance

ELECTRON an elementary particle

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

Antifascism

Opposers of dictators

Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction. a. Tending to lessen friction.

ANTIGENIC

Counteracting hysteria.

KICKBACK a strong reaction

LEUKEMIC one affected with leukemia

LYNCHING the act of lynching

Non-PC chair protector (wordplay)

Chair cover mascara stain made a mess of

Protective cloth on upholstered seat

""MAGNETIC a metal that attracts iron, also MAGNET""

Antimitotic

Antinucleon

Positron in relation to an electron, say

Eg, a positron

Positron, for example

I pitch a tent abroad without assent, initially causing bad blood

Opposed to upsetting Tina with old newsreel from jerk

Plural or third person singular

POACHING encroachment

POLITICS the science of government

PRURITIC pertaining to {pruritus=n}

Antipyretic

Good against the rickets.

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Antiscience

So as to cause annoyance to others

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Using the juxtaposition of opposites (rhetoric)

VIOLENCE a violent action

AORISTIC pertaining to a verb tense

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

APERIODIC

Aphrodisiac

International sect controlled by a dogmatic type, one supervising workers

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Person associated with (-ist)

""Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective.""

In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.

Apolitical

The state or quality of being apostolical.

Former purveyor of medicines

Might they offer a drug to the man with an oral problem (wordplay)

Medical suppliers giving a drug to the man facing decay

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

Members of a communist bureaucracy

Apparatchik

Intestinal operation

Abdominal operation

Certain surgery

Plural or third person singular

Painful abdominal inflammation

Inflammation of intestinal sac

Inflammation of abdominal sac

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

""The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.""

Conscious perception with full awareness.

Computer programs

Optician's pal designed computer programs

They arrive for the job and are put to work in the computer department

APPRECIATE To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

Going up in one's estimation (wordplay)

Gratitude; increase in value

Acknowledgment of rise in value

Showing gratitude

Thankful for backing Evita with epic rap melody

In someone's debt for treasure around island - it's a sign

Appreciator

""Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. as, appreciatory commendation.""

Setting to work to learn from a master.

Easy to meet or deal with

Easy to talk with

Easy to talk to

Accessory (linked to a particular activity)

Net can be fitted in a quietly perfect accessory

Accessory developing rut in a quiet act of mortification

Of or pertaining to aquiculture.

Aquaculture

Aquiculture

""The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver. as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.""

Anarchy with credo disturbed church office

Dean co-chairs shambles in one of the church provinces

Relates to clerical figure starting off in March around the sea reportedly

Soccer head is transforming metropolitan districts

Archdukedom

ARCHEGONIA

Archenteron

Archeology

Archerfish

Of or pertaining to an archespore.

A primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops.

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." archetypally distinct."

Perfectly representative

Very representative

Chap involved with literacy in original form

Of a sea abounding in islands

Archipelago

House-craft (wordplay)

Art of designing buildings etc

Style of a building

English word

""Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey.""

Satiric actor playing noble

Of the nobility

Satiric actor turning 'blue'

Touching figures cast to charm Letitia? Is it art, Michael (wordplay)

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

Arthroscope

ARTHROSCOPE

Articulacy

""After the manner, or in the form, of a joint.""

Stating clearly

Clarity in speech

Tunic a tailor prepared for delivery

Term for off-road suspension compliance

Of or pertaining to articulation.

Articulator

""ARTICULATOR One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

Synthetically transformed rail facility

Rail facility dismantled using mechanical means

Unnaturally

Artiodactyl

In an esthetic way

Ascendancy

Ascendency

Confirming seating in car trip

Working out in revolutionary Argentina (sic)

A carol about tried and tested type of working out, for sure

Of or pertaining to ascomycetes.

Association

Astrocytoma

Of a pseudoscience

Like the supposed influence of planets and stars

Science of space travel

Absolutely huge (in a heavenly way!)

Stellar location with Mars shot

High, as inflationary prices

Science of celestial bodies

Science of stars and galaxies

Branch of science

Irregular in outline

Redeveloped city alarms me, lacking a logical design (wordplay)

Crooked

Showing no symptoms of disease.

Asynchrony

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Happening at different times, soca dances with horny topless nuns

Unrelated to or lacking a theoretical basis.

ATHLETIC relating to vigorous physical exercise

Athleticism

Electrical disturbances

Attractance

In a way that gains attention

AUDIOLOGIC

AUSCULTATE To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

The act of listening or hearkening to.

Of or pertaining to auscultation.

In a favorable way

Autecology

Verify gold teeth? I can't when false

Confirm as genuine

Show to be genuine

Genuineness

AUTISTIC one who suffers from autism

Autochthon

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.

AUTODIDACT One who is selftaught; an automath.

Autoecious

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

AUTOMATIC

In a greedy way

AVASCULAR

AVICULTURE Rearing and care of birds.

""Pl. avitaminoses (-s z) A disease, such as scurvy, beriberi, or pellagra, caused by deficiency of one or more essential vitamins.""

AVUNCULAR Of or pertaining to an uncle.

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

Azotobacter